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err much in computing (where the foil and furface 
are tolerably uniform) the decreafe of heat (by 
Fahrenheit’s thermometer) in the proportion of 
one degree for near 1 90 feet of elevation on this 
ifland.” 
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XIX. Account of a Stone voided without 
Help from the Bladder of a JVoman at 
Bury. Communicated by William Hcber- 
den, M,D, F, R. S» 
Read Mar. LIZ AB ETH, the wife of Charles 
My Coe, a poor labouring man, of the 
parlfli of Lawfliall, in Suffolk, aged about 67, having 
been feverely afflidfed with fymptoms of the ffone 
between 1 1 and 12 years ; her urine continually 
draining away with great iinealinefs ; fometimes at- 
tended with the moll excruciating pains j and for 
tome years unable to lit upon a leat ; on Monday 
jith of February, 1765, voided a ffone as de- 
fcribed in the Plate. 
For two or three days before the ffone came away, 
blood was difcharged from the Meatus Urinarius, 
particularly a large quantity of fincere blood with- 
out Mucus at the time the ffone was voided j at 
which time fhe was not in great pain j but after its 
cxclufion remarkably eafy. Her urine now paffes 
involuntarily without pain } and ffie can fit upon a 
feat without uneafinefs. 
I 
Her 
